August 2018

PCTel looks forward to 5G, re-organizes leadership GERMANTOWN, Maryland –PCTel is bringing its antenna and test segments into a single business unit — not all that unlike the end-to-end set-up …

IoT network gets upgrade to support voice Verizon’s nationwide Cat M IoT network now supports voice communications, according to the carrier, which painted the enhancement as expanding the addressable IoT …

  The Chinese vendor said it is accelerating investments in R&D Chinese vendor ZTE’s production activities have returned to normal, following a U.S. import ban which severely impacted the firm’s …

  The Middle East telco also announced its first customer in the 5G segment Vodafone Qatar has announced the activation of its 5G network in the country, which would enable …

Local authorities said LoRaWAN technology will enable the implementation of use cases, including digital water metering and waste management   NNNCo, the Australian firm building a national narrowband network in …

Money will extend rural broadband to more than 700,000 homes and small businesses With the U.S. Federal Communication Commission’s Connect America Fund auction on the books, some 103 service providers …

In terms of digital technology, computer vision is as old as the hills. In popular terms, its theory of expanded machine consciousness emerged just as Bob Dylan and The Beatles …

Lenovo and Pivot3, a provider of ‘hyper-converged infrastructure’ solutions, have struck a deal to develop and sell edge computing products for smart city security. The city of Bogota, in Colombia, …

Today?s intelligent lighting controls have advanced far beyond simple sensors and time clocks. Companies worldwide are investing in LED lighting, IoT sensors and wireless networking technologies to solve a lot …

Union says merger could cost 28,000 jobs The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s comment period regarding the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile US merger ended on Aug. 27, and as the clock ticked down …

Deep learning is a machine learning method that uses multiple layers of nonlinear processing units in cascade. It can be supervised, for things like classification, or unsupervised, for pattern analysis …

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the materials used in construction, the needs …

As buildings become smarter, the need to propagate signals will be challenged by a myriad of factors including the age of the building, the materials used in construction, the needs …

The benefits of SD-WAN for enterprise networks are now well understood. By creating a managed overlay network with centralized control, enterprises have transformed their WAN into an intelligent and automated …

Sigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The funding included investments from Japanese operator …

Dell Technologies will release a number of pre-integrated and pre-tested computer-vision and machine-intelligence bundles for its resellers to more easily cater to certain edge-computing and internet-of-things use cases. The bundles, …

The role of AI in transforming network operations management The deployment of 5G will see a massive increase in radio sites as operators densify networks to support incredible concentrations of …

The Scottish government has invested a total of $3.5 million in this IoT project Business in Scotland will benefit from a new internet of things network launched through a private-public …

The appointment is part of the settlement between the Department of Commerce and ZTE The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed Roscoe Howard Jr. to be the special compliance coordinator …

Japan’s communications ministry will start carrying out R&D to develop post 5G standards Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to start carrying out research and development activities for a …

Qualcomm stock passes $69 per share With the close of an initial round of stock repurchases at midnight Aug. 27, Qualcomm is set to spend $5.1 billion to buyback more …

5G is not just about the Radio Access Network (RAN). Next-generation wireless is going to need a lot of help from wireline technologies to deliver on its promises. This paper …

Fiber is the workhorse of today’s global network infrastructure. But what do you do when fiber is just not an option? Ciena’s Brian Lavallée details the real-world situations that often …

In June 2018, a major landmark was hit for 5G–the 3GPP’s Release 15 was frozen.  The Non Stand-Alone use case was frozen in December, and the Stand Alone use case …

CWA: 28,000 jobs lost if Sprint/T-Mobile US merger goes forward Contrary to what the companies are telling federal regulators, the Communications Workers of America union says a Sprint/T-Mobile US merger …